Originally Posted by
yanrair
Good thing for Sully he did not follow company procedures and for all the passengers aboard. Or the BA 747 with quadruple engine failure which wasn't in any book. Had to improvise the whole thing. And.............loads of others. Sioux City comes to mind.
Yes of course you use company procedures but as an experienced airline pilot you bring much more to the party than reading checklists that may or may not reflect your actual situation. I think it is called airmanship or some other archaic word like that!
Cheers and thanks for the post.
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yanrair
You are taking reference to "catastrophic" events and compare them to a simple blocked pitot or other system failure creating a single airspeed indicator to fail(or 2)?
You are NOT on the path to good airmanship, you are just heading in the right direction to deliver your license to the nice man behind the counter. IF there are no published procedures for a certain failure(e.g. the ones you mentioned), OF course you revert to experience and good airmanship.
If the CAPTAIN deems it necessary to deviate from procedures it is his right to do so. BUT afterwards he will need to explain what(and why) he did to the nice guys on the green table.